The Other Side Of Madness Pt. 9/9

AKA The Helter Skelter Murders. Very rare film presented for research and discussion purposes only. 1970.

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[OtherSideOfMadness]

I imagine few people would believe this film as documentary. It was one of the first films made on this subject, and has several points of potential interest, not the least of which being the fact that it was filmed on location at Spahn. The drug excuse tacked on at the end is a common gimmick in exploitation films. Giving the story a moral is a way of justifying exploitation under the cloak of social commentary. Hope this adds clarity.

[kelillo]

in spite of all the limitations the film contains lots of nice details, for example Mr Spahn walking with one of the Manson girls in the ranch. And the soundtrack is simply awesome...

[Tavlov]

I think the hippie music festival sequence is a very strong piece of observational filmmaking; a suble indictment of the hippie subcultures' efforts to seperate individuals from themselves. Less than drug abuse, the real message of the movie seems to be directed toward the dangers of surrending your own mind to anything wholly outside of you.

[madder66mortem]

Still want to see parts 2 and 3!

[TheJohnlennongirl]

Do you have any idea how much that plunging knife to terrified Sharon would have felt like as she begged to have her baby and have them come back to kill her after -wards? Can you even fathom the terror of seeing all your friends brutally cut down in front of you from total strangers? However, Watson, married his social worker and had kids with her in communal visits. What ya think of that? Do you call that justice as Sharon, her baby and friends live six feet in the ground? Think about it.

[DA4LE]

There is quite a lot more to say, you are NOT the judge, only God is.

[BrickLaneBetty]

not those of us who don't choose to kill pregnant women and anyone else we choose, taste their blood and laugh about it like it meant nothing. you obviously have never had an immediate family member brutally murdered. anyway she's died behind bars and she deservedly suffered, there is little else to say.

[DA4LE]

perhaps....aren't we all?

[BrickLaneBetty]

she is free-free to burn in hell.

[tapeduk]

Well at least this film is from that era. The 1960's were a very unique time in history. And they cannot recapture that in movies or re-enactments made today

[Makeyoubleed]

amen amen amen

[DA4LE]

FREE SUSAN, DAMMIT!

[kelillo]

In fact drugs are also guilty of what happened. An important part of this sad chapter of the story was the madness and the guillable and unstable people but drugs were a key element of this "blood rampage". I understand perfectly the sense this movie want to give...However, it is the first aproximation of cinema to this story.Obviously the whole sense wasn´t absolutely clear yet.